Salmonberry Blossom

The weather has been beautiful the past week and everything is bursting into growth and bloom. Along Fishtrap Creek here in the town some of the native plants are blooming, including the Salmonberries.

The berries, which come later in the summer, look like large orange-red raspberries, and taste like insipid raspberries as well. They were traditionally eaten with salmon and thus their name.

They are native to the west coast from California to Alaska but have naturalized in other parts of the world. Their botanical name is Rubus spectabilis and some cultivars are grown as garden plants.

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